Treat All Things As If They Were

To Be Sure, Our Mental Processes Often Go Wrong, So That We Imagine God To Have Gone Away. What Should Be Done Then? Do Exactly What You Would Do If You Felt Most Secure. Learn To Behave Thus Even In Deepest Distress And Keep Yourself That Way In Any And Every Estate Of Life. I Can Give You No Better Advice Than To Find God Where You Lost Him.

I Have Sought Earnestly And With Great Diligence That Good And High Virtue By Which Man May Draw Closest To God... And As Far As My Intelligence Would Permit, I Find That High Virtue To Be Pure Disinterest, That Is, Detachment From Creatures. Our Lord Said To Martha 'unum Est Necessarium', Which Is To Say; To Be Untroubled And Pure, One Thing Is Necessary And That Is Disinterest.

God Is Like A Person Who Clears His Throat While Hiding And So Gives Himself Away. God Lies In Wait For Us With Nothing So Much As Love.

When You Are Thwarted, It Is Your Own Attitude That Is Out Of Order

Your Own Efforts "did Not Bring It To Pass," Only God-but Rejoice If God Found A Use For Your Efforts In His Work.